Get Best Sellers Audiobooks in Arts & Entertainment, Music

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Hotel California

Author: Barney Hosykns

Narrator: Nick Landrum

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-14

Publisher: Talking Music

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 103 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

The classic account of the LA Canyons scene between 1967 and 1976, featuring Joni Mitchell; Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young; The Eagles; James Taylor; and Jackson Browne. Ambition, betrayal, drugs and genius all combine with great music making.

Members Reviews:

A real tour de force

This was my generation and Hotel California has it all covered. Nick Landrum does an outstanding job. Absolutely recommended!

A really wonderful book.....

For anyone who grew up during this period of time, and was into music, this book a for you. If you're a fan of Linda Ronstadt, Gram Parsons, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Eagles, etc., you'll find it very interesting to see how all these people interacted to become who they are.... and for some still are.

if you're at least in your 60s and you love rock

very entertaining from the first word to the last. If you love the 60s and 70s rock experience you going to love this book

I wished it was longer

It was great listening to all of the stories about the artists in the 60s and 70s.

New Meaning...

Behind the scenes of my favorite era of music. This book gives new meaning to the songs, concerts, and artists who served as the backdrop to my life.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Making Music Your Business

Subtitle: A Guide for Young Musicians

Author: David Ellefson

Narrator: David Ellefson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-10-14

Publisher: Backbeat Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Being a successful musician takes more than playing well. This audiobook helps musicians of all styles and levels manage the business side of their career. Megadeth bassist David Ellefson draws on 20 years of recording and touring experience to share his knowledge of how the music industry works - from the musician's perspective. Explores the key areas of management, recording, promotion, touring, and career image. Includes the following:

Members Reviews:

Well write

I thing the books have some good advice not only for musician and people of the music industry, instead of artist with serius ambitions.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Birth School Metallica Death, Volume 1

Author: Paul Brannigan, Ian Winwood

Narrator: Ray Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-05-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 200 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

A landmark release, this is the first of a two-volume biography of Metallica, the biggest metal band of all time, told via exclusive interviews with the band and their world.

The California quartet has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, won nine Grammy Awards, and had five consecutive albums hit number one on the US Billboard chart. Theirs is a tale about much more than sales figures and critical acclaim, though, and their journey from scuzzy Los Angeles garages to the world's most storied stadiums has been dramatic and painful.

Birth School Metallica Death is the definitive story of the most significant rock band since Led Zeppelin. It's a story about family, community, self-belief, and the pursuit of dreams, which unfolds through firsthand interviews with the band and those closest to it. In this epic saga, deserving of a broad canvas, the first volume details the band's rise to international fame while the second explores the challenges and tensions that accompany such status. Piece by piece, Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood reveal just how Metallica has stayed ahead of the competition for so many years.

Members Reviews:

Better than I thought!

Any additional comments?

I was expecting a lot of the early history to be glossed over and/or limited. As a fan of everything before the black album (yes, I'm one of "those guys") , I was pleasantly surprised how detailed their early days and even their upbringing were.

great

I saw them on the kill em all for one tour in bpt CT this brought back memories

Do it!!

What did you love best about Birth School Metallica Death, Volume 1?

If you are interested in Metallica listen to this. The authors provide a ton of history on the band and Ray Porter is an amazing narrator.

Come for the metal, stay for the writing

I frequently read music biographies to learn the back stories behind my favorite bands or to give me insight into new music. Usually these books are interesting but not always well written. This book however is very well-written and very interesting. Some of the descriptions of songs were so well done that I knew exactly what he was referring to before he mentioned the title. This is the rare audiobook that kept me in the car in my driveway just to hear the rest of the chapter.

Excellent

Great story and great narrator. Looking forward to listening to volume 2. After each section that covered an album, I listened to that album in its entirety. Knowing the behind the scenes stuff that went into each album offers a new perspective.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: The 23 Greatest Solo Piano Works

Author: The Great Courses

Narrator: Professor Robert Greenberg

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-27-13

Publisher: The Great Courses

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 294 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

The piano is the most popular solo concert instrument in Western music. One of the key reasons is the fact that it has inspired many of the greatest masterpieces in the concert repertoire. To study these masterworks and to understand their genius and lasting appeal is to know one of the greatest accomplishments of Western culture, works that give great pleasure even as they deepen your insight into the meaning of music.

The 23 works you'll study are carefully chosen to highlight the most important compositional and pianistic achievements in the solo piano tradition.

These 24 enthralling lectures by Professor Greenberg take you through more than 200 years of piano music. Beginning with the monumental figure of Bach, followed by Mozart and Beethoven, you experience the piano music of such 19th-century masters as Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt, before moving forward to visionary modernists including Scriabin, Debussy, and Prokofiev. Each lecture presents a single work in a fresh, accessible encounter with its musical substance, welcoming listeners new to concert music as well as experienced concert music lovers.

In addition to your study of the music, the lectures treat you to a rich panorama of music history. You dig deeply into the artistic and cultural environments that the compositions reflect, shedding light on what inspired these great works and how they were written. As a third layer of the course, you delve into the fascinating history of the piano itself, uncovering the ways in which the evolution of the instrument directly influenced the music that composers wrote for it.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

Members Reviews:

Wonderful!

My degree is in Classical piano, and, still, I learned so much.

Thank you. I will listen to it again.

Greenberg is the Best

If you could sum up The 23 Greatest Solo Piano Works in three words, what would they be?

Greenberg's grasp of the subject is masterful but always entertaining. This is my 11th Greenberg Great Course purchase.

Brilliant!

As always, professor Greenberg fills this entertaining and informative series with interesting anecdotes, technical explanations, and, last but not least, his own idiosyncratic and witty teaching style.

A Grand & Glorious History

I loved the narrator's "characterizations" helping to make the history come alive. A most fascinating tale of the piano and those composers and pianists who helped develop it into the magnificent instrument it became and still is. A must read for true music appreciation.

Prof. Greenberg is terrific as always, but!

Any additional comments?

Prof. Greenberg is terrific as always, but Great Courses could have used better recordings of the music!

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Ready for a Brand New Beat

Subtitle: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America

Author: Mark Kurlansky

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-13

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Can a song change a nation? In 1964, Marvin Gaye, record producer William "Mickey" Stevenson, and Motown songwriter Ivy Jo Hunter wrote "Dancing in the Street." The song was recorded at Motown's Hitsville USA Studio by Martha and the Vandellas, with lead singer Martha Reeves arranging her own vocals. Released on July 31, the song was supposed to be an upbeat dance recording - a precursor to disco, and a song about the joyousness of dance. But events overtook it, and the song became one of the icons of American pop culture.

The Beatles had landed in the U.S. in early 1964. By the summer, the sixties were in full swing. The summer of 1964 was the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the beginning of the Vietnam War, the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and the lead-up to a dramatic election. As the country grew more radicalized in those few months, "Dancing in the Street" gained currency as an activist anthem. The song took on new meanings, multiple meanings, for many different groups that were all changing as the country changed.

Told by the writer who is legendary for finding the big story in unlikely places, Ready for a Brand New Beat chronicles that extraordinary summer of 1964 and showcases the momentous role that a simple song about dancing played in history.

Members Reviews:

almost as good as the song

Mark Kurlansky did a great job of weaving the song into the history and social fabric of the day. Lots of great "factoids" and stories throughout, which provided a potent glimpse into Berry Gordy, Motown, the artists and the politics of the day. Super narration too.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Concert Masterworks

Author: The Great Courses

Narrator: Professor Robert Greenberg

Format: Original Recording

Length: 24 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-13

Publisher: The Great Courses

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 126 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Have you ever thought about the creative process that boiled inside geniuses like Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorák, Strauss, Brahms, Mendelssohn, or Liszt - or any composer, for that matter?

What goes through a composer's mind when a musical composition is being set to paper? Are those magical weeks or months spent in an agonizing creative blur of ideas first tried and then discarded, or is it a matter of pure inspiration? Does the composer hear the music in his head before even picking up a pen, or does the music in fact begin on that blank sheet of staff paper? Most important, can lay listeners like us, untrained in music's technicalities, learn how to open our ears to a composer's creative intentions?

Happily, the answer is a resounding "yes!" And in this series of 32 lectures, a professional composer and accomplished teacher will give you a new level of sophistication as a music listener - using as his teaching tools some of the most memorable works in all of music, by geniuses whose work has not only withstood time, but transcended it.

Through listening to these lectures, you'll gain a new grasp of the intricacies of musical purpose, structure, and narrative content that you will then be able to hear in any piece of music. And though this is a demanding course, with a deeper look into musical structure than untrained listeners are likely to have experienced, it is not an intimidating one. Professor Greenberg vividly positions each composition and its composer in the social and musical fabric of its period, so you can understand the music in its proper societal and artistic context and feel its emotional power in the same way as did its original audiences.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

Members Reviews:

Down the rabbit hole with Dr. G!

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

My first attempt to break into the world of really enjoying music came when my husband bought. The Concert Masterworks. Until then, I knew my favorite music was Bachs and Mozart came second and Beethoven and Vivaldi and Teleman were in there somewhere. I was pretty much a Baroque girl. When I listened to the first two lectures, I realized I was missing a lot. So, I got the How to Listen and Understand Great Music. Loved it. Listened until I got to the Classical Period and went back and did Bach and the High Baroque. Then on with the Classical Period--which I have not finished yet because I did Great Masters: Mozart and am about to start The Concerto. And then, either The Chamber Music of Mozart or The Symphony. I am enjoying Dr. Greenbergs expertise and attitude so much that I keep diving down new rabbit holes!

Very Well Done

I have criticized Professor Greenberg's "over the top" approach to his lectures. For those who have felt the same as me, I encourage you to have a listen to this set of lectures. Greenberg is restrained, professional and not constantly trying to be funny. Indeed, these lectures are very technical, historical detail is precise and informative and the overall tone is one of a deep regard for what constitutes "art".

My only critique is that these lectures do not include the word scores that Professor Greenberg rightfully feels the listener should follow along with.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: The Concerto

Author: The Great Courses

Narrator: Professor Robert Greenberg

Format: Original Recording

Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-13

Publisher: The Great Courses

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 129 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

The concerto offers a kind of unique excitement no other instrumental music can match. Where a symphony enthralls us with its thematic variations and development, a concerto gives us human drama - the exhilaration of a soloist or group of soloists ringing forth against the mass of the orchestra.

In 24 musically rich lectures, Professor Greenberg provides a guided tour of the concerto, from its conception as a child of Renaissance ideals, through its maturation in the Classical age, its metamorphosis in the Romantic era, and its radical transformation in the 20th century and beyond.

You'll listen to selections from nearly 100 concerti from more than 60 composers - from Gabrieli to Gershwin, from Schumann to Shostakovich. Along with the bedrock of the repertoire - represented by Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Rachmaninoff, Bartok, and many others - you are introduced to superb concerti by a host of less-familiar masters.

You'll study in depth some of the greatest and most beloved works of the genre, including Mozart's Concerto for Flute in G Major, K. 313; Haydn's Concerto for Trumpet in E-flat Major; Beethoven's Piano Concerto no. 4 in G Major, op. 58; Chopin's Piano Concerto no. 2 in F Minor, op. 21; Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor, op. 16; and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 35.

Finally, you'll look at some notoriously esoteric and difficult 20th-century composers, including Arnold Schönberg and Elliott Carter, learning how their music is much more accessible than it appears.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

Members Reviews:

Better than "How to Listen to...Great Music!"

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

This course is indispensable for anyone who enjoys concert or symphonic music. Dr. Greenberg's _How to Listen to and Understand Great Music_ was my introduction to The Teaching Company. I saved for years to be able to buy that introductory course, and have listened to it over and over. "The Concerto" is better still, because every moment of every lecture is on point and fascinates me.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Concerto?

As a huge fan of Prokofiev, I was delighted that Dr. Greenberg spends time on the Russians, and particularly on my favorite Prokofiev concerti.

Have you listened to any of Professor Robert Greenbergs other performances before? How does this one compare?

It is hard to imagine any performance better than these two courses. The jokes (while silly, sometimes) are amusing and Dr. Greenberg describes music in ways that really help me listen differently.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

As soon as I finished the course, I started it over again, for the sheer pleasure of learning more, going deeper, understanding ideas that I missed the first time.

Any additional comments?

I hope to be able to add more of Dr. Greenberg's courses to my audio library. "The Concerto" is a high point. I cannot imagine anyone being disappointed in this course.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: The Symphony

Author: The Great Courses

Narrator: Professor Robert Greenberg

Format: Original Recording

Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-13

Publisher: The Great Courses

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 212 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

From its humble beginnings in the 17th-century Italian opera overture and the Baroque ripieno concerto, the symphony has evolved into one of the longest lived, and perhaps the most expressively inclusive, genres of instrumental music. Along the way, it has embraced nearly every trend to be found in Western concert music.

In this series of twenty-four 45-minute lectures, Professor Greenberg guides you on a survey of the symphony. You'll listen to selections from the greatest symphonies by many of the greatest composers of the past 300 years. You'll also hear selections from some overlooked works that, undeservedly, have been forgotten by contemporary audiences.

Your tour of the symphony includes

The course concludes with an investigation of Dmitri Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, which became, in Professor Greenberg's words, "a model for what the new, post-Stalin Soviet music might aspire to be-a more personally expressive, less explicitly programmatic work, one that both engaged and challenged its listeners."

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

Members Reviews:

Super Survey of Symphonies

Greenberg is a superb lecturer who presents the symphony across the centuries in an electrifying and edifying manner. He brings each composer and his work to life. There are composers of whom I had never heard and I am better off now. But for even the familiar ones I have a deeper appreciation.

Around the world and through time. . .

What made the experience of listening to The Symphony the most enjoyable?

I am stunned by the works I have listened to and enjoyed. Even more I am amazed that I have searched and found the Turangalila Symphony and plan to use Dr. Gs lecture to study it. I already like parts of it, but the other parts confuse me or irritate me (but in an interesting way). I think thats what I appreciate most about this particular coursenow I can listen to music and say I like that or Id like to hear that again or That one is still beyond me. I have three options instead of just I like it or No, no, no!

I love Professor Greenberg's teaching style

this is my third music appreciation course with Professor Greenberg, and I always learn a ton. I highly recommend this course and I feel like I've really learned how to deepen my appreciation of the symphony.

Another wonderful series from Robert Greenberg

I'm a big fan of Robert Greenberg's lectures on music. The Housemate and I are watching How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, and I've finished his series on J. S. Bach, and -- my personal favorite -- Music as a Mirror of History. As with the latter, this course on symphonies shows us that Professor Greenberg is not just astonishingly well-versed in music, but that he has a remarkable ability to contextualize that music, allowing the listener to understand the influences that helped to create, in this case, individual pieces of work, but in the case of the more general surveys, the entire oeuvre of the composers he covers.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: How to Listen to and Understand Opera

Author: The Great Courses

Narrator: Professor Robert Greenberg

Format: Original Recording

Length: 24 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-13

Publisher: The Great Courses

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 455 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

To watch any opera lover listen to a favorite work, eyes clenched tight in concentration and passion, often betraying a tear, is to be almost envious. What must it be like, you might think, to love a piece of music so much?

And now one of music's most gifted teachers is offering you the opportunity to answer that very question, in a spellbinding series of 32 lectures that will introduce you to the transcendentally beautiful performing art that has enthralled audiences for more than 400 years.

As you meet the geniuses - including the likes of Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Puccini - who have produced some of the landmark artistic achievements of the form, and listen to many of their most beautiful moments, you'll grasp how the addition of music can reveal truths beyond what mere spoken words can convey, and how opera's unique marriage of words and music makes the whole far greater than the sum of its parts.

Beginning with opera's origins in the early 17th century and continuing into the 20th, you'll trace the art's evolution and its ability to convey every shade of human emotion, whether sorrow or joy, drama or buffoonery. You'll understand how different types of voices enhance character. And you'll understand how the invention of the aria gave operatic composers a new power to make human emotions soar, adding to the impact of what continues to be one of the most beautiful musical forms ever devised.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

Members Reviews:

Professor Robert Greenberg does it again!

Lectures

1 Introduction and Words and Music, I

2 Introduction and Words and Music, II

3 A Brief History of Vocal Expression in Music, I

4 A Brief History of Vocal Expression in Music, II

5 Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, I

6 Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, II

7 Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, III

8 Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, IV

9 The Growth of Opera, the Development of Italian Opera Seria, and Mozart's Idomeneo, I

10 The Growth of Opera, the Development of Italian Opera Seria, and Mozart's Idomeneo, II

11 The Growth of Opera, the Development of Italian Opera Seria, and Mozart's Idomeneo, III

12 The Growth of Opera, the Development of Italian Opera Seria, and Mozart's Idomeneo, IV

13 The Rise of Opera Buffa and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, I

14 The Rise of Opera Buffa and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, II

15 The Rise of Opera Buffa and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, III

16 The Rise of Opera Buffa and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, IV

17 The Bel Canto Style and Rossini's The Barber of Seville, I

18 The Bel Canto Style and Rossini's The Barber of Seville, II

19 Verdi and Otello, I

20 Verdi and Otello, II

21 Verdi and Otello, III

22 Verdi and Otello, IV

23 French Opera, I

24 French Opera, II

25 German Opera Comes of Age

26 Richard Wagner and Tristan und Isolde, I

27 Richard Wagner and Tristan und Isolde, II

28 Late Romantic German OperaRichard Strauss and Salome

29 Russian Opera, I

30 Russian Opera, II

31 Verismo, Puccini, and Tosca, I

32 Verismo, Puccini, and Tosca, II

I love Professor Greenbergs lectures and when I saw this one available on Audible I had to try it.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: The 30 Greatest Orchestral Works

Author: The Great Courses

Narrator: Professor Robert Greenberg

Format: Original Recording

Length: 24 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-13

Publisher: The Great Courses

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 808 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Over the centuries, orchestral music has given us a category of works that stand apart as transcendent expressions of the human spirit. What are these "greatest of the greats"? Find out in these 32 richly detailed lectures that take you on a sumptuous grand tour of the symphonic pieces that continue to live at the center of our musical culture. These thirty masterworks form an essential foundation for any music collection and a focal point for understanding the orchestral medium and deepening your insight into the communicative power of music. While seasoned music lovers will find the lectures a revealing journey through the repertoire, the course welcomes newcomers to orchestral music, offering a very accessible point of entry to this magnificent repertoire.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

Members Reviews:

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music..

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth. Dimitri Shostakovich

This lecture series by Robert Greenberg on the 30 Greatest Orchestral Works is an amazing journey through music and the history of music starting with Vivaldi and ending with Shostakovich.

I learned a great deal about music and especially the composers and what they tried to accomplish through their music. I had no idea that at one time composers working for patrons were expected to come up with something new every month and didn't start writing their works down until people started asking them to play something again. Can you imagine how many great works were lost because they were not written down?

The list of the classes are as follows:

30 Greatest Orchestral Works

1. Introduction

2. Vivaldis-The Four Seasons

3. Bachs-Brandenburg Concerto

4. Bachs-Violin Concerto in E Major

5. Haydns-Symphony 104

6. Mozarts -Piano Concerto 24 in C Minor

7. Mozarts-Symphony #104 Jupiter In C Major

8. Beethoven-Symphony #3

9. Beethoven-Piano Concerto #4

10. Beethoven-Symphony #9

11. Schubert-Symphony #9

12. MendelssohnItalian Symphony

13. SchumannSymphony No. 3

14. Brahms-Symphony No.4

15. Brahms-Violin Concerto

16. TchaikovskySymphony No. 4

17. TchaikovskyViolin Concerto

18. Bedrich SmetanaMá Vlast

19. DvorákSymphony No. 8

20. DvorákConcerto for Cello

21. Rimsky-KorsakovScheherazade

22. Richard StraussThus Spoke Zarathustra

23. MahlerSymphony No. 5

24. RachmaninoffSymphony No. 2

25. DebussyLa Mer

26. StravinskyThe Rite of Spring

27. Saint-SaënsSymphony No. 3

28. HolstThe Planets

29. CoplandAppalachian Spring

30. ShostakovichSymphony No. 5

31. ShostakovichSymphony No. 10

32. The Ones that Got Away

He ends the lectures talking about some composers like Bizet and Bartok whose estates refuse to allow the Great Courses to teach their works, which is a shame.

I know now what to look for in a piece of music and some more composers I should look into. I can highly recommend the course and the lecturer.

This is what audio books were made for

As someone with an extremely limited knowledge of music I have always felt intimidated by classical compositions.